Re: Should there be a "UniGlyph" standard?

From: Peter_Constable@sil.org
Date: Wed Mar 06 2002 - 01:08:20 EST


>Should there not be a "UniGlyph" encoding, for use by font designers,
etc.,
> which would encode these glyph variants? People who type text do so in
>Unicode, then the font internally converts it to UniGlyph in preparation
>for display.

Sounds like a nice idea, but it's not quite that simple. It was also tried
once, and that effort died.

- Peter

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